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A new convention coming to New Orleans called Big Easy Con was supposed to happen in three weeks, but on Friday the people putting on the convention

  Doing the tally for 2019, more comic book stores have opened than have closed, by a significant degree. But that does mean some have closed. And

David Avallone's has a Writer’s Commentary on Bettie Page #4, on sale now from Dynamite Entertainment. David writes: SO MANY SPOILERS. Beware. This is for

Here's the big list, the top 500 most-ordered comics and graphic novels through Diamond Comic Distributors in North American comic book stores in April

What If? is a longstanding Marvel comic book series, that features alternate historie sin the Marvel Universe. What If Jean Grey Lived? What If Spider-Man

Simon James writes: Godfather of Geek Kevin Smith is currently doing the rounds of the UK whilst recording his Hollywood Babble-On podcast. Last night was

'Funkoverse' is an informal term used by vinyl toy collectors to describe the various worlds of Funko POP toys as well as the experience of surrounding

Today, tickets for X-Men: Dark Phoenix go on sale and across the world a number of comic stores, pop-ups and cinemas are running X-Men Day - with signings

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Oh and it is, apparently X-Men Day - more on that to

Nick Mohammed and David Schwimmer just presented the awards for Best Comedy Entertainment Programme at the BAFTA TV Awards, being held and transmitted

Fallon, Nevada does not have a comic store anymore. Or rather, it didn't. As in, it had some, they went away but now they're getting a new one. V Titans

Lucca Comics and Games is the biggest comic book convention in Europe, the second largest iun the world and even bigger than Angouleme. Last year they

The last time we spent time at Toronto's Kensington Market, it was in Savage Dragon, as Malcolm Dragon and family moved into the area and we got a

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

Los Angeles rock music band Tool have a short tour in May in the USA, around their festival dates, with 10 shows in two weeks. The show list is below...

Garrison Dominguez is a Los Angeles-based comic book creator and illustrator, and you can see his particular stylings on his Instagram page here. But what

We already looked at April 2019's marketshare in which Marvel Comics took a 50% share for the first time since September 2008 - as well as how they

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Anyone else having a lazy Sunday or is it just me? Top

Okay, so we know from past experience that this kind of thing is generally nonsense. Posts on 4chan purporting to be big leaks, that take things that are

For days now, Bleeding Cool has been telling you that Marvel Comics #1000 is the big 80th anniversary from Marvel Comics featuring 80 one-page stories by

Bleeding Cool highlighted The Walking Dead #191 as a new turning point of the series. The End of Act 2. we saw it. Well, the arc has one more 'aftermath'

A few people have wondered about the absence of the Fantastic Four on the Alex Ross cover to Marvel Comics #1000. It wouldn't be the first time the

Drew Ford, is best known for his archival and revival projects for a variety of publishers, including Dover Books, IDW and now his own publisher It's

  Geoff Weber writes: I read my first 3D comic in the early 90s when I discovered a copy of Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters (an unofficial

Johnny Segura writes: My name is Johnny Segura. I'm the writer and artist for the book Pipe Dreams: A Tale of 2 Plumbers. I've always loved video games.

We've seen how popular Immortal Hulk has been getting of late, with the most recent issue even outselling Batman's final days of Knightmares. Naturally,

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five stories read yesterday Immortal Hulk Now

Bleeding Cool has been talking about Marvel Comics #1000 for a few days now, but today it all went official. And while we managed to grab 55 of the

We just get later and later. Welcome to Thank FOC It’s Friday Sunday, a weekly-ish mailing list, similar to The Daily LITG, but (mostly) every Friday and